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Global sex survey considers marriage and god

Marriage is good for your sex life, but both it and religion could harm your sexual health.

The first ever global survey of sexual behaviour, studying more than a million men and women from 59 countries, has found that while married people have the most sex, marriage is not a safeguard for sexual health. “Married women typically find it harder than single women to negotiate safer sex and condom use, leaving them more vulnerable to infections and unplanned pregnancies,” says Kay Wellings at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the research.